On 9/1/15 12:15 AM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
On 1 September 2015 at 05:53, Donald Stufft <donald@stufft.io> wrote:
The top packages look a bit different than it did 10 months ago, surprisingly to me PIL has severely dropped off from where it had ~63k 10 months ago and it now has 5.5k, however pygame has risen from 2.6k 10 months ago to ~32k.
I can provide plausible explanations for both of those:
* Pillow adoption progressively displacing PIL usage
Wow that's amazing, thanks for those numbers Donald \o/. To correlate (apropos of nothing) it looks like Pillow's PyPI numbers are slightly up over the past year (Pillow is released quarterly): $ vanity -q pillow==2.7.0 Pillow 2.7.0 has been downloaded 934,119 times! $ vanity -q pillow=={2.8.0,2.8.1,2.8.2} Pillow 2.8.0 has been downloaded 41,433 times! Pillow 2.8.1 has been downloaded 788,788 times! Pillow 2.8.2 has been downloaded 500,565 times! Pillow, Pillow and Pillow have been downloaded 1,330,786 times! $ vanity -q pillow==2.9.0 Pillow 2.9.0 has been downloaded 1,083,447 times!
* Pygame Zero lowering barriers to entry for PyGame usage in education
Cheers, Nick.
P.S. If folks haven't seen PyGame Zero, it's a pretty neat concept: https://pygame-zero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/